My sister Alexandra (Shanie) was born in 1942 and my elder brother, Tom, in 1944. They were wartime children. I was born in 1947. At home in peacetime Norfolk, there was no television, never enough heating, no new toys, and few, if any, consumer goods. We had just enough money to get by. The large Victorian house was divided into three. This was th

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"I started to concentrate on possible solutions and at first, naturally, didn't get any further," said Hertzstark. "Later, I had an idea that I should look at everything backwards. I thought to myself, I'll pretend that I have already invented everything. What does this kind of machine really have to look like, so that someone could use it? It cann... See more